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...second medal was to go to veterans of the years of guerrilla war that followed-which the Irish call "The Trouble."* Of the 2,000-odd fighters in the Rising, many are dead, others have disappeared. Among the survivors to whom the medal went were Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, three of his Ministers, Opposition Leader William T. Cosgrave, Minister to the U.S. Robert Brennan, Protestant Labor Leader Archie Heron, Actor Arthur Shields...
...held last week. Their slogan: Up the flag, for Germany determines the future. In Great Britain the Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) was expected soon; Britons got out their gas masks and remarked that late in February the ground is soggy and receptive to gas. Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and Northern Ireland's Prime Minister John Miller Andrews both warned Ireland that an invasion was coming soon. The moon waned...
...raid shelters, hospitals, airplane factories, chemical works, pubs (in one, when he bought beer for the soldiers, the proprietor broke out a bottle of champagne he had been saving for the Armistice). On the eve of his return he flew unexpectedly to Dublin to lunch with Prime Minister De Valera and the Cabinet Members of Eire; in a message to Germany he spoke as an American of German descent who opposed everything that Hitler stood for. Everywhere his reception was tumultuous, enthusiastic, unvaried. The tributes ranged from the London Times ("Everywhere and with everyone he has left the impression...
Engaged. Emer De Valera, second daughter of Eire's Premier Eamon De Valera, student at University College, Dublin, and a whiz in languages; and Brian Ocuiv, also a student at University College; in Dublin...
...Eire, when Prime Minister Eamon de Valera banned The Great Dictator, a Belfast theatre (in Northern Ireland) tried to advertise the film in Dublin newspapers, with a schedule of train service to Belfast. Eire's censors promptly killed...